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Making Europe. The Global Origins of the Old World

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Publié le vendredi 16 avril 2010 par Karim Hammou

Résumé

In recent years, a new specter is haunting Europe - the explosion of writings on the history of the continent. These works all advocate an internalist view of Europe that explains Europe - its successes, its failures and its tragedies - largely out of itself, a perspective that contrasts Europe starkly to its Others. Making Europe will offer one of the first sustained critiques of that vision by investigating the economic, cultural, ideological, scientific, and political connections of Europe (and, especially, its regions) to the rest of the world.

Annonce

This conference, and the volume that will result from it, will argue, in contrast to much of the existing literature, that much of what is allegedly distinctly "European" is the result of interactions between particular European regions and other parts of the world. It will show that the efforts to write a history of Europe confined to its own ill-defined boundaries might serve particular political needs of the contemporary moment, but is, in fact, historically inaccurate.

Programme

Friday, May 28, 2010

10-10:15 Welcome

Sven Beckert

Dominic Sachsenmaier

Julia Seibert

10:15-12:15 Economic Development; Science

Chair: Ibrahima Thioub, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

Aditya Mukherjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India: "Colonial India in the World Economy and the Shaping of the Modern British